Digital stalking

Michael Wolf’s ongoing experimentation with urban drifts conducted through Google StreetView has now made it into book form. A Series of Unfortunate Events, published by Peperoni Books, appears like a series of cinematic stills (‘very bizarre, intimate and terrifying moments, which Google catapults into the internet’), clips from a dark road movie. Obviously, creating SV means sucking down data continuously and then chopping it up, meaning that it is, essentially, one giant film created by numerous second units all around the world, each doing take after take after take (see Google Street View Timelapse: The Raw Data to see what the rushes look like).

Minecraft sounds absolutely wonderful, according to this recent post at Wonderland and this epic travelogue at RPS. While we don’t have nearly a fraction of the spare time needed to do anything in this brave new blocky world, we’re fascinated by the combination of deliberate abstraction (blocky, Ant Attack-esque landscape) with an entirely open and ever-changing world.